Phillip Mulligan in Norwich

Join local poet Phillip Mulligan for a reading from his new book Despite Gravity! Despite Gravity, a collection of poems weaving whimsy, some personal history and an appreciation of the natural world. In it, Mulligan explores the sense of being anchored while still knowing how to fly and carry what’s essential. "Here is a poet who travels skillfully through the heavy existential questions we all carry as birthright. Navigating with humor at times, and with a delicious sense of rhythm and rhyme, even enchantment, Mulligan transports the reader to a place of belonging. These are urgently relevant poems you’ll want to savor…often." - Marjorie Moorhead, author of Into the Thrum, What I Ask; Every Small Breeze "Phillip Mulligan’s sinuous, revelatory language celebrates a heartfelt love of place while honoring all that is transient and enduring in the cycles of the year and the seasons of life. His compassion for the more-than-human world undergirds this collection’s sensitive exploration of personal joy and loss, landing us at “a place/vast and familiar, singular and whole/sweet with salt and hugged by the moon.” What a transformative homage to the home within us. What a marvelous antidote to the gravity of our time." - Anne Bergeron, poet, essayist, co-editor of the anthology Dark Matter Women Witnessing: Dreams Before Extinction. Phillip Mulligan has spent most of his life as a farmer, builder and poet. This year he has published 2 books, Despite Gravity, A Collection of Poems and Year of Mornings, with photographs by Susan Morse. Phillip Mulligan authors with the land, the sacred and the humanity in all of us bringing an informed and grounded sense of place, humor and curiosity.